Forget life as you know it
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Hey there!
wired.com launched a new photography contest today. This time it’s all about food. See the contestants here and vote for your favorites.
If you see this plate of lovely Strawberries, or perhaps a nice shot of tasty jelly beans, I’d be glad if you’d click the little green arrow on the top-right besides the picture itself 
Tags: contest, food, jelly beans, Photography, strawberries, vote, wired.com
I visited the brand new growing part of Esch/Alzette today and took some pictures played with my camera. You might want to have a look on flickr.
Tags: Esch-sur-Alzette, Photography
I saw the awesome Kiss show yesterday at the rockhal.
What shall I say? I wanted the best, I got the best! The hottest band in the world…
Now I can die without regrets
I like the summer, not because of the sun(burn) but mostly because of the Music Festivals. The most decent Festival in Luxembourg is Rock-a-Field from the atelier-guys. Having brought Franz Ferdinand, Placebo, The queens of the stone age, The Killers, The Hives or Billy Talent the expectations were high for the 2008 edition.
And the line-up with We are scientists, Mando Diao, The Verve, Uncle and the Babyshambles seemed disappointing to many. The Babyshambles couldn’t make it due to some little prison incident, and after this news was published sales were a bit lets say weak. I believe that therefor the Kooks were booked to fill the empty space. A good choice in my humble opinion.
Fact is that about 9000 people spent a great and sunny day in the Fields in Roeser. Less people than last year, luckily, so that the facilities and catering were adequate to the crowd and the waiting time in queues was great (in opposition to last year’s edition).
As you can se on the pictures, weather was great as were the bands.
Unfortunately we were a bit late an the programming set the local heros, Eternal Tango to lunch time. Saw the guys before, even had them on a stage once and they are quite promising.
First full set I saw were the geeky We are scientists, witty as always. Liked them on tape, but on stage they are even better. Bad point: they didn’t play Ghouls 
Next band on stage were Mando Diao and a weird Backdrop (who designed that?). The rocked well, the crowd acted well, and their sound was awesome.
Follow-up were The Kooks, with their lovely songs and damn their tunes are catchy. I’m still humming Seaside and catch myself asking people if they wanna make love to me Honestly they are quite a band.
Then a band came on stage I didn’t even remember. Sure there was this song way back in my youth. I remembered the The Rolling Stones suing them because of the use of a sample. But where were they since? Never heard of them again. Did they hide in a cage? I don’t know. But one thing I know for sure, they are still awesome and are capable of building a bridge between slow floating melodies and massive dance style tunes. Their new single “Love is noise” will hit Europe this summer. I’ll bet on that one.
Last band for the night, playing in front of an empty field were Uncle. To, lets say outer space for my taste. Some kind of Electro-Rock-Punk with a lot of drugs. And the Verve seemed wrong after all, the drugs seemed to work after all.
Tags: Festival, Music, Rock-a-Field, Summer
Was passiert wenn man ein Fertiggericht öffnet?
Man wird oft bitterböse überrascht.
Ein Kunstprojekt hat sich jetzt mit dem Vergleich der Packungsabbildung und dem Produkt auseinander gesetzt, und entstanden ist eine bemerkenswerte Sammlung an Fotos.
Wichtig ist, dass das Projekt versucht eine Neutralität zu waren, die Fotos unkommentiert lässt, und auch positive Bilder nicht versteckt. Absolut sehenswert!
Tags: Art, food, Photography, werbung
Jedes Festival hat einen Flaschenhals. Manchmal ist es der akute Mangel an Dixie-Klos, manchmal lahmt der Getränkeausschank. Viele Besucher des Rings kennen das Nadelöhr “Eingang B”.
Dieser Tunnel des Graues ist alles, was man am Festival so liebt. Der Geruch von Alkohol und Schweiss, anhängliche Festivalbesucher auf der Suche nach Körperkontakt. 45 Minuten Horror, sind aber die gesammelten Werke der deutschen Fussball-Fangesänge. Jetzt kenn ich sie alle … hätte nicht sein müssen. Danke trotzdem liebe Ringsänger. 
Schalala-lala-lala! Schalal-la … !
Tags: rock am ring
Alle Jahre wieder … irgendwann zwischen dem Osterhasen und dem Weihnachtsmann, kommt beides zugleich.
Was für die einen der Karneval, ist für eingefleischte Musikfreunde die Hochsaison der Festivals, wärend der fast kein Wochenende ohne Openairs vergeht. Letztes Wochenende stand das grösste Doppelfestival Europas an, 85.000 (x2) kamen. Wir auch…
… allerdings erst recht spät. Anreise am Donnerstag war nicht möglich, so dass uns das traditionnelle Freitagschaos nicht erspart blieb. Dieses Jahr gelang es uns, ohne Stau innerhalb kurzer Zeit einen Parkplatz zu finden, da wir die ausgeschilderten Plätze umfuhren, um den Shuttleservice in einem der nahegelegenen Dörfern zu nutzen. Hierzu kann man nur sagen, der öffentliche Transport ist eine tolle Sache … wenn er denn fährt.
Das Resultat unseres Versuches:
Tags: rock am ring, transport
Der Song, der, den meisten Ringrockern wohl in der Ohren hängen blieb, dürfte wohl “I won’t be long” von The Hives sein. Und die sind noch nicht einmal aufgetreten.
Nichts verstanden? Erklärung folgt:
Tags: ad, rock am ring
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